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1909;] Efforts for Peace 



words of Hodler, the Swiss worker, "this opportunist 

 pacifism was not devoted to peace and its constructive 

 possibiHties; it was merely nationahsm sweetened, 

 tempered, and enfeebled — a thin veil drawn across 

 nationalism." 



While at the Congress at Chicago in 1909, I met for ja 

 the first time Miss Jane Addams, we two being judges '^^^''^^ 

 in an intercollegiate oratorical contest on the subject 

 of world peace. This was the beginning of an endur- 

 ing friendship, and in all my experience I have 

 known few lives as sane and helpful as that of 

 the mistress of Hull House. Later, during my visit to 

 Boston in connection with the Foundation, I pre- 

 sided at a meeting of the School Peace League estab- 

 lished by Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, a tireless and Fannie 

 capable worker for conciliation both in America and ^''''J 

 Europe, with whom in various ways I have been most 

 pleasantly associated. 



On January 19, 1910, my (fifty-ninth) birthday. The ]ot- 

 a group of Stanford naturalists formed the ''Jordan ^"''^^''^ 

 Club" for field study in the region round about. 

 I regret not having shared more rambles with these 

 congenial spirits; but through Dr. Isabel McCracken, 

 assistant professor of Entomology, the first president 

 of the club, Mrs. Jordan and I try to keep somewhat 

 in touch with. them. 



In 19 10 I published my already mentioned little UcNair 

 volume entitled "The Stability of Truth" mxade up of ^^'^"""^ 

 addresses given on the James Calvin McNair Foun- 

 dation before the University of North Carolina at 

 Chapel Hill during the administration of Dr. Francis 

 P. Venable. The book deserved more of a sale than 



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